STRONGS NUMBER H5666


Word Summary
abah: to be thick, fat, or gross
Original Word: עָבָה
Transliteration: abah
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-baw')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be thick, fat, or gross
Meaning: to be thick, fat, or gross
Strong's Concordance
be grow thicker

A primitive root; to be dense -- be (grow) thick(-er).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5666. abah

עָבָהverb be thick, fat, gross (Late Hebrew Pi`el עִבָּהmake thick, and derivatives; Syriac swell up, passive participle swollen, thick, dense, stupid, and many derivatives; Arabic be dense, stupid, dense foliage; Ethiopic be great Di985); —

Qal Perfect3masculine singular ע ׳קָֽטֳנִּי אָבִי מִמָּתְנֵי1 Kings 12:10 my little finger is thicker (stouter) than, etc., = 2 Chronicles 10:10; be thick, gross, of rebell. Israel under figure of highly fed beast, 2 masculine singular כָּשִׂיתָ עָבִיתָ שָׁמַנְתָּDeuteronomy 32:15.

II. [עָבוּר‎] noun only in בַּעֲבוּר47, בַּעֲבֻר‎ (Genesis 27:10, 31),

preposition and

conjunction for the sake of on account of, in order that (perhaps originally for the produce or gain of), suffix בַּעֲבוּרִי1 Samuel 23:10, etc.; — 1 as

preposition:

a. Genesis 3:17 בעבורך האדמה ארורהfor thy sake, 8:21 האדם בעבורfor man's sake, 12:13 בַּעֲבוּרֵךְ יִיטַבלִֿי לְמַעַן‎, 12:16; 18:26, 29; 26:24, Exodus 9:16 ׳ב זֹאת13:8 ׳ב זה1 Samuel 12:22; 2 Samuel 5:12; 6:12; 7:21; 9:1, 7; Amos 2:6; 8:6 ב ׳ואביון נַעֲלָ֑יִם‎, Micah 2:10 ׳ב טָמְאָהon account of uncleanness, Psalm 106:32; 132:10, etc.; 2 Samuel 12:21 ׳ב חַי הַיֶּלֶדbecause of the child, (being) alive (= while he was alive), Jeremiah 14:4 **< read חַתּוּ הָאֲדָמָה וְעֹבְדֵי‎ Duhm, compare ᵐ5‎. חַ֫תָּה ׳ב הָאֲדָמָהon account of the ground, (which) is dismayed, Job 20:2 בִּי חוּשִׁי וּבַעֲבוּר‎ read ׳וב זֹאת‎, or וּבַעֲבוּרָהּ‎.

b. followed by infinitive (compare לְמַעַן‎), in order to, Exodus 9:16 ׳ב אֶתכֹּֿחִי הַרְאֹתְךָ‎, 1 Samuel 1:6; 2 Samuel 10:3 אתהֿעיר ׳ב הֲּקֹר‎, 18:18: so לְבַעֲבוּרExodus 20:20; 2 Samuel 14:20; 17:14; לְ בעבור1 Chronicles 19:3 ("" 2 Samuel 10:3, no לְ‎). 2 as

conjunction Genesis 27:10 ׳ב יְבָרֶכְךָ אֲשֶׁר‎; without אשׁר‎, 21:30 ׳ב לִ ׳תִּהְיֶה לְעֵדָהin order that it may be a witness for me, 27:4 ׳ב נפשׁי תְּבָרֶכְךָ‎, 27:19; 27:31; 46:34; Exodus 9:14; 19:9; 20:20; Psalm 105:45.

[עָבַת‎] verb Pi`el wind, weave (compare derivatives); — Imperfect3masculine plural suffix וַיְעַבְּתוּהָMicah 7:3 and (so) they wind it (or weave it; i.e. mischief); so Hi Che GASm, but dubious; Ew reads עָבַט‎ = twist, prevert (compare Joel 2:7, but see עבט‎), We וַיְעַוְּתוּהָ‎ = id., compare Now (?), Dr.